Grade 5

GRADE 5

Earth and Space Science (ESS)
Topic: Cycles and Patterns in the Solar System
Content: Most of the Cycles and Patterns of motion between the Earth and Sun are predictable

Lesson Plans:

http://cse.ssl.berkeley.edu/segwayed/lessons/BOSS/lessonplan2.htm

Discrepant Events:

Solar System Simulator
Super Science pg. 28-29

What Causes an Eclipse
Imitations to Science Inquiry pg. 317
Liam

STEM events

Determining How the Earth's Rotation Affects Launching a Rocket Into Space
Super Science Challenge pg. 29
Janice VanCleave

Making a scale model of the Solar System that shows the planets distance from the Sun
Super Science
Janice VanCleave

Simulations (Project WET, Project WILD, ect.)

What force keeps the moon from flying away
Showy Science pg 237
Kim

Websites/ORC sites

The Earth, Sun, and Moon
http://library.thinkquest.org/29033/begin/earthsunmoon.htm

ORC#:9479 Myths v Realities:Solar System
ORC#:7204 Apparent Motion of the Sun

Literature:

Sun Up Sun Down
by Jacqui Bailey

Night Wonders
by Jane Anne Peddicord

Text References

Science Interactions
Glencoe

Science Spectrum: A balanced approach
Holt

Related Vocabulary Words:

equinox, lunar eclipse
revolution, rotation
solstice, solar eclipse
sphere,tide